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"Everything and nothing is sacred in Rebecca Brown's essays. Tongue, word, thought, and intellect all conspire in a free language love of living history, divination, sex, solitude and amusement. She is America's only real rock 'n' roll schoolteacher. Lessons layered with profundity and protracted parallels. Where old world religion, Gertrude Stein and Oreo cookies co-exist in an actual and mystic world of wonder."—Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth
"If Rebecca Brown's talent for prose were any tighter, it would be a lyric—to a pop standard. An homage—a menage—to America, exposing what's laid bare in a comic tragi
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Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers
Release date: 1 June 2009
ISBN-10 : 0872864987 | ISBN-13: 9780872864986
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Release date: 1 June 2009
ISBN-10 : 0872864987 | ISBN-13: 9780872864986
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